Copying PDF to Microsoft Word - How To Fix Line Breaks

When you copy text from a pdf file, like this one, to a Microsoft Word file, you sometimes encounter line break issues. To fix this, I’m going to first mark the beginning of the paragraphs with some characters, say xx. Then I’m going to press Ctrl H on the keyboard in Word to launch the “Find & Replace” dialog box. Then type character code ^p in the “Find what” field -to find paragraph marks or line breaks. Next click in the "Replace with" field and just hit the space bar once Then click “Replace All”. The line breaks are now all gone. But the paragraphs are gone too. So it is time to utilize the xx I typed in earlier. Press Ctrl H again for the “Find & Replace” dialog box. Type xx in the “Find what” field. Type caret p in the “Replace with” field to replace the xx with paragraphs. Click “Replace All” and there you have it.

Channel: Joshua Emmanuel

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Keywords: acrobat, paste, copy, edit, replace, paragraph

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Length: 0min 59sec (59 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 23 2015